[Charles Henrickson]

My parent’s generation spent the wealth that was so painfully earned by their parents. Then, they created failed program after failed program, all paid for with trillions of borrowed dollars. And when the programs were clearly failures, and, in fact, made things worse, they plodded on.

That would describe the PRE-Boomers, and even the generation before them. The basics of Big Government, i.e., FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society, were NOT the product of Boomers (those born 1946-64).

[Wanderer659]

You are correct. However, later generations did expand, or refuse to reform failed programs to a sufficient degree.